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The ruling Chinese Communist Party is stepping up controls on dissidents who speak out against changes to the constitution allowing President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely, as authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong placed a rights activist under house arrest for giving..

An elderly man has been hospitalized in the Chinese capital after a suicide attempt outside the gates of the State Council complaints department after his petitioning yielded no results, eyewitnesses said on Thursday.
"It was just past 2 p.m. on Mar. 14, while I was at the State Council petitions..

The ruling Chinese Communist Party is set to restructure its entire administrative machinery to give it more direct control over the country's finances and government actions.
The "revolutionary" restructuring will merge several ministries, including financial services regulators overseeing the..

Posters and graffiti have appeared on the streets of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou calling for independence not just for neighboring Hong Kong, but for Guangzhou, which shares its Cantonese language and culture with the former British colony.
Graffiti phrases like "Independence for..

Pro-democracy parties in Hong Kong were unable to win back two of the four seats stripped from them during the past two years in elections over the weekend.
Voters instead backed two pro-Beijing candidates for Legislative Council (LegCo) by-elections in one geographical and one professional..

Omer Ghoja’abdulla, an ethnic Uyghur Muslim from northwest China’s Xinjiang region, has been living in Istanbul, Turkey practicing traditional Uyghur medicine for the last three years. He lost contact with his sister, 55-year-old Oghulnisa Ghoja’abdulla, who lives in Hotan (in Chinese,..

The removal of elected pro-democracy lawmakers from office and the disqualification of fresh candidates by election officials ahead of Sunday's Legislative Council (LegCo) by election in Hong Kong has cast doubt on the legitimacy of the forthcoming poll, a rights group has said.
The "political..

Sexual harassment in China is still rife, feminists and NGOs said ahead of International Women's Day on Thursday, although the #MeToo movement has been gaining some traction on the country's tightly social media platforms despite widespread state censorship.
A survey of more than 400 female..

The ruling Chinese Communist Party has ordered its nearly 90 million members to watch a propaganda movie titled "My Country is Incredible," sending the nationwide box office ratings sky-high on the first day of its release in movie theaters, RFA has learned.
As the country's rubber-stamp..

Plans to amend China's constitution to allow President Xi Jinping to remain in office indefinitely have prompted vocal opposition in the former British colony of Hong Kong, where many fear a more authoritarian leadership style in Beijing could spell the end of the city's traditional..

The ruling Chinese Communist Party has stepped up nationwide security measures targeting people pursuing complaints and long-running grievances, intercepting petitioners en route to the capital, and sending those who arrive there back home, ahead of its annual parliamentary sessions this week.
As..

BEIJING (Reuters): Removing presidential term limits in the state constitution is about protecting the authority of the ruling Communist Party with President Xi Jinping at its centre, a Chinese government spokesman said on Sunday.
The party said last Sunday it would remove the two-term limit..

Government censors are finding new ways to block banned keywords on social media platforms as netizens tried, and failed, to discuss constitutional changes planned by the ruling Chinese Communist Party on social media platforms this week.
The planned changes, which will almost certainly be..

Taiwan marked the 71st anniversary of the Feb. 28 massacre on Wednesday, as the tomb of late Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, who presided over the killing, was covered by activists with red paint symbolizing blood.
Hundreds of protesters earlier took to the streets in a call for justice for the..

The ruling Chinese Communist Party's plan to remove a two-term limit from the posts of president and vice president, paving the way for incumbent Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely, have provoked a surge in the number of people wanting to leave the country, amid strong opposition among the country's..

The ruling Chinese Communist Party looks set to remove a two-term limit from the posts of president and vice president, paving the way for President Xi Jinping to rule indefinitely. A clause removing the requirement for the country's president and vice president to "serve no more than two..

Chinese authorities at Chengdu airport in Sichuan blocked three Tibetans holding foreign passports from entering China on Thursday, questioning them harshly and detaining them for hours before expelling them, Tibetan sources say.
No explanation was given for the move, which saw the three members..

China and the Vatican look set to ink an agreement next month on the appointment of bishops, marking a significant concession on the part of the Holy See to the ruling Chinese Communist Party's regime of religious controls, media reports have indicated.
The Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera..

Authorities in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong have ordered a large Protestant church to close, while officials in Henan say they will begin demolishing any church buildings not approved by the government, RFA has learned.
The Shekou One Country International Church in Guangdong’s..

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